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Shakespeare
Number of Words: 547 / Number of Pages: 2
... various groups of topics.
Other things that influenced ’s plays were his life experiences. As a young boy dramatic events that occurred led to his writing of Hamlet. The drowning of a girl named Katherine he knew was also a source of his playwriting.
History affected his writing as well. One of ’s most heralded plays was based on the life and demise of Julius Caesar. He gathered information about Caesar, and with his literary brilliance wrote about Caesar and his story in a unique perspective. Also the life of Marc Antony was very influential in one of ’s great plays, as well as the bible and ot ...
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Thoreau As A Prophet
Number of Words: 455 / Number of Pages: 2
... of life are food, shelter,
clothing, and fuel. (1495) “When he has obtained those things which are
necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain the
superfluities” (Thoreau 1496). Thoreau is saying that it is a choice to
obtain more than the necessities of life. We choose to buy excess clothes
and excess technology. What happened to being content with what God has
given us? “But if my jacket and trousers, my hat and shoes, are fit to
worship God in, they will do; will they not?” (Thoreau 1501). In the Bible
it says, “Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true wo ...
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Cyrano De Bergerac And Mother Teresa: Heros?
Number of Words: 2303 / Number of Pages: 9
... and dying across the globe. Sounds like two heroes to me, right? But still I was perplexed. There had to be more.
So, Cyrano de Bergerac...hmmm...from my first readings he just sounded like this eccentric fellow with a large schnozzle. Why was he even put on the list of heroes? I decided maybe the techniques learned in class could possibly help me out with my dilemma. I read again. I looked over notes again. I read again. I looked over notes again. I think you catch my drift. And it turns out that this Cyrano guy ain’t half bad. In all actuality he may be a hero.
Mr. de Bergerac was an ec ...
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Leonardo Da Vinci
Number of Words: 2266 / Number of Pages: 9
... had keen powers of observation, an
imagination, and the ability to detach himself from the world around him.
At an early age Leonardo became interested in subjects such as botany,
geology, animals (specifically birds), the motion of water, and shadows
(About Leonardo).
At the age of 17, in about 1469, Leonardo was apprenticed as a
garzone (studio boy) to Andrea del Verrocchio, the leading Florentine
painter and sculptor of his day. In Verrocchio’s workshop Leonardo was
introduced to many techniques, from the painting of altarpieces and panel
pictures to the creation of large sculptural projects in ...
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The Marquis De Sade's Attitude Towards Women
Number of Words: 1676 / Number of Pages: 7
... Sade justified his beliefs through graffiti, playing psychologist on
vandals:
In the stylization of graffiti, the prick is
always presented erect, as an alert attitude.
It points upward, asserts. The hole is open, as
an inert space, as a mouth, waiting to be filled.
This iconography could be derived from the
metaphysical sexual differences: man aspires,
woman serves no function but existence, waiting.
Between her thighs is zero, the symbol of nothingness, that only attains
somethingness when male principle fills it with meaning (Carter 4).
The Marquis d ...
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Rosa Parks
Number of Words: 588 / Number of Pages: 3
... well known for her work with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Parks was a hard-working woman and very well respected for her dedication to the African American community. However, she would kick off a national civil rights movement on December 1, 1955 on her way home from work. As she traveled home from work that day, a white man approached her isle and demanded that any African Americans sitting there had to move. However, Parks refused to move because of how exhausted she was. She was arrested, finger printed, and jailed. Her only phone call would be ...
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Howard Hughes
Number of Words: 3889 / Number of Pages: 15
... to another, hopefully more fortunate gamble. In the year of his marriage, Big Howard sold leases on land that proved to have $50,000 in oil beneath it. He promptly took his new wife to Europe for a honeymoon, and returned exactly $50,000 poorer. In 1908, Big Howard turned his ingenuity and his hobby to tinker into good fortune. Current drilling technology was unable to penetrate the thick rock of southwest Texas and oilmen could only extract the surface layers of oil, unable to tap the vast resources that lay far below. Big Howard came up with the idea for a rolling bit, with 166 cutting edges and inv ...
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George Washington
Number of Words: 629 / Number of Pages: 3
... for their land. The party nearly escaped from the French.
Washington was next appointed lieutenant colonel to an expedition to the Ohio Valley. In April, 1754, he set out from Alexandria with 160 men to reinforce a fort in southwestern Pennsylvania, only to find that the French took control of the fort and renamed it Fort-Duquesne. Washington then cautiously set up his own post within 40 miles of the French position. He attacked the French post on May 28,1754. He managed to kill the commander and nine others. They then took the rest prisoners.
Washington immediently received a promotion to a full ...
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Stephen Biko
Number of Words: 609 / Number of Pages: 3
... While in prison, Stephen was severely beaten to death, but the
police said that his death took place because he went on a hunger strike.
Stephen Biko achieved many great feats during his life. One of
these feats was his acceptance to the University of Natal. He entered the
institute to study medicine, though he did not complete the course because
of his political activities. Mr. Biko also put forth many ideas to help
the black people understand what the whites were doing to them. He said
that treating of the blacks poorly itself was not the worst problem they
had, the big dilemma was that the ...
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Harry S. Truman
Number of Words: 909 / Number of Pages: 4
... in love. Truman did not begin regular school until he was eight,
and by then he was wearing thick glasses to correct extreme nearsightedness.
His poor eyesight did not interfere with his two interests, music and reading.
He got up each day at 5 AM to practice the piano, and until he was 15, he
went to the local music teacher twice a week. He read four or five histories or
biographies a week and acquired an exhaustive knowledge of great military
battles and of the lives of the world’s greatest leaders. In 1901, when
Truman graduated from high school, his future was uncertain. College had
been r ...
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